Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

RFE/RL Belarus, Ukraine, and Moldova Report 1/4/2011 7:22:21 PM A review of RFE/RL reporting and analysis about Belarus, Ukraine, and Moldova. For more stories on Eastern Europe, please visit and bookmark our Eastern Europe page .

 

Belarus   One Of Five Candidates Released One of the five jailed presidential candidates, Vitaly Rymasheuski, was quietly released on New Year's, his party has announced. More   One Jailed Belarus Candidate Freed One of the five opposition presidential candidates arrested during mass protests that followed Belarus's election last month has been released from jail, RFE/RL's Belarus Service reports. More   RFE/RL Launches 'Voices Of Solidarity' Project For Belarusian Detainees In a project launched by RFE/RL's Belarus Service, top politicians, dissidents, activists, writers, musicians, and artists read aloud the names of the hundreds of opposition supporters who were beaten and jailed following postelection rallies in Minsk. More   OSCE Offices Ordered Shut In Minsk A Belarusian Foreign Ministry spokesman says that country ordered the closure of the rights watchdog's Minsk office because its mandate there "had been fulfilled." More   Blood And Special Operations In Belarus Politics Belarus's postelection repression has stifled the current wave of protest. It also made Minsk's international stance much more difficult. But what's least clear is how these events will play out in Belarusian society. More   'Covered In Blood' -- Belarusian Protester Talks About His Arrest, Imprisonment Twenty-three-year-old Illya Bohdan is a member of the opposition Belarusian Popular Front. He was detained during the election protests in Minsk on December 19. He was released on December 29 after 10 days in jail. Bohdan spoke with RFE/RL's Belarusian Service after his release. More   Belarusian Opposition Candidates Formally Charged Over Protests Five out of seven Belarusian presidential candidates who ran against Alyaksandr Lukashenka in this month's election have been formally charged with organizing violent mass disturbances. More   Health Fears For Belarus Candidate The lawyer of a Belarusian presidential candidate who has been in prison for 10 days is raising concern about her client's life. More   Belarus Starts Releasing Election Protesters From Jail Belarusian authorities have started to release people detained during a postelection demonstration on December 19. More   Belarusian Blogger Activists Combing Video Evidence To Identify ' Provocateurs' With hundreds of Belarusians still in jail after protests following a controversial presidential election, a Belarusian blogger has been poring through footage from election night in a bid to identify "provocateurs." More   'European' Police State The bloody aftermath of the elections and the ensuing government crackdown testifies to the fact that Belarus is not a state governed by law. More   U.S., EU To 'Review' Belarus Ties The United States and the European Union say they are reviewing their relations with Belarus after police in Minsk cracked down on mass opposition protests against the weekend vote that President Alyaksandr Lukashenka says he won in a landslide. More   Belarusian Party Branch Wants To Expel Presidential Candidate A branch of the Belarusian opposition United Civic Party (AHP) says it wants presidential candidate Yaraslau Ramanchuk expelled from the party. More   The Right To Remain Silent It seems like the Belarusian authorities are starting to run out of people to arrest. More   Rights Group: Seven Belarusian Presidential Candidates Face 15 Years In Prison A Belarusian human rights organization says seven presidential candidates who ran against the country's authoritarian leader could face up to 15 years in prison in the wake of postelection violence and massive arrests. More   Moldova Moldova PM: Chance To End Deadlock Moldova's prime minister-designate says the country's new parliament will be able to elect a president and break a constitutional crisis in the country. More   Moldova Gets Speaker, Staves Off Crisis The Moldovan parliament has elected Democratic Party leader Marian Lupu as its speaker and made him acting president. More   Ukraine Stalin Statue In Ukraine Decapitated Ukrainian police are seeking to establish who damaged a monument to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin in the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhya. More   Ukraine Can't Combine Putinism And European Integration Ukraine's leaders seem to be intent on moving forward with their plans to establish a managed democracy, one aspect of which is the removal of the main opposition force led by Yulia Tymoshenko. But their belief they can successfully unite Putinism with European integration is fatally flawed. More   More Join List Of Former Ukrainian Officials In Trouble With Law As the list of former Ukrainian officials in trouble with the law grows, the opposition and human rights activists say the law is being used randomly to punish or scare opponents of the government. More   Ukrainian Ex-Minister Arrested Officials in Ukraine say they have opened a new criminal case against a former interior minister, arrested on December 26. More   Another Ex-Minister In Ukraine Probed Ukraine's prosecutor-general has launched a criminal investigation into former Deputy Justice Minister Yevhen Korniychuk, accusing him of abuse of power while in office. More